topic 5- policies towards the jews and the untermenschen during war and final solution Flashcards
when was the wansee conference
20th january 1942
who led the wansee conference?
heydrich
what was decided at the wansee conference?
- the final soloution to the jewish question which was externimation at death camps acroess europe and germany
- was called jewish question to keep the plan hidden from the world
- hitler didnt attend and there is no evidence of hitler signign off on any of the final solution attrocities
how many holocaust victims died as auchswit?
1/5
what was auswitz 3 used for
as a industrial complex where jewish workers were used to mare ammunition for the war
what doctor worked at auchwizt
joseph mengel or the ‘angel of death’ perfromed horrific acts on twins to work out how to expand the master race and see if they both felt pain ect.
what camp killed the most amount of people?
treblinka killed 1 million people and was only open for open year 1942-42
what was the first camp to be opened
chelmo
killed 145,000
what was the split of prisoners in mejadank
60% jewish
what were partisan groups
groups of jewish resitance in mainly easterneurop who would camp out in forests and sabotage nazi procedures
in 1942 how many jewish partisans were there in lithuania
100,000
evidence of partisan groups posing. a threat to nazis
hans frank (governer of the general goverenmnt area in poland) called for large security backup to find 20 different partisan groups
sobibor revolt
1943 800 prisoners escaped afer revolt
warwaw ghetto uprising
may 1943 armed revolt to stop the deportisation of jews to the death camps
what were death marches
by 1944 when the germans were suffering a military defeat and many camps were being closed down or liberated the ss camp leaders led the jews to walk all the way to difference camos
how many victims were there of death marches
around 250,000 to 400,000 died most women of maltuntion freezing to deaht or exaustion
what historians believe that hitler is to blame for holocaust and why
intentolaist histroians such as felmming argue tha hitler clearly was to blame for holocause was he was committed to jewish persecuton from the stat and this wa sbakce dup my gradually worsening jewish policy
many top nazis aid he verbally gave murderous orders and was highly probable he authroised final solution
counter to hitler being to blame
- no signed document authorising the killing of jews or final soluton
- hitler wasnt at the wasnsee conference
- hitler myht made peoe to beleive that hitler was far more involed in policu making than he was
what historians beleive that the german people were to blame
revistionist of structuralist histroians such as goldberg argue that the german people were ‘willing executioners’ and even revelled in mass murder
germans morally responsible for the final oloution due to their anti semitic views tha were stregnthend by porganda athat made them complicit
how many germans were accused of being involved in final solution?
- 100,000
argument against german public being to balme
only a small number and most were non germasn and ukranian
many people didnt know of the attrocits they were just rumor hat people beleived were wholly made up
arguments that it was other nazi leaders to blame for final sol
- heydrich lead wansee conference
- adolf eichmann was architech of fianl solotion organisation trandport to camps
- himmler commanded ss to work at camps and einsatz grupped to carry out mass muder in euastern europe
- speer made the gas chambers
how many rebels were there in the warsaw ghetto uprisings?
700
what. was operation rhinehard
killed most of the surviing inhabitiants of the warsaw ghetto in a 2 day shooting
bielksi bothers
in belarus in 1941 a jewish partisan gourps lead by the beliski borthers becmae a persement communist partisan groups with 120,000 members
allowed jews who escaped the ghettos to seek refuge with them
